Far from the Madding Crowd

In the novel "Far from the Madding Crowd", Hardy reveals the great and eternal drama of the relationships between man and woman.
In its time, the vivid, complicated story of the love triangle involving the independent and proud Bathsheba, who inherited a farm in the wilderness of Northern England, the farmer Gabriel Oak, and the "intruder from urban civilization" Sergeant Troy became a true literary scandal. Interestingly, Hardy's novel is still considered scandalous and disruptive to the "foundations of foundations" of today’s society.
So how did Hardy manage to touch the strings of the readers' souls for three centuries?..